FINALLY! I've missed writing and uploading like, every day! I wish I could, but my teachers must hate me, because today I ended up slamming myself in the face with my mathbook. I'm fed up, the the second term is only beginning... Well, don't fret! I'm trying! And I'm starting the next chapter already. Review, you'll cheer me up if you do :)

Birds were chirping outside. It was a lovely golden afternoon in Konoha.

So why was Itachi wasting his day INSIDE?

He lay in his bed on his back, staring up at the ceiling in thought. Crazy things had happened a few nights ago. He was still stunned that he had actually run into Sasuke at the coffee shop. I mean, would you expect that?

And what was even weirder is that he was just looking at himself the whole time. But it was Sasuke. That doesn't make any sense at all, does it?

This was about his fifth day, just laying there in bed thinking about it. Not a wink of sleep, or anything to eat or drink. How is that possible? It's not, last I checked, but apparently it is for Itachi.

"There really is a truth, I just couldn't tell you."

Shit, did he really just say that?

Sasuke looked back at him quizzically, but Itachi gazed forward into the night as Naruto dragged him back home. Apparently, he hadn't heard the words that escaped from Itachi's mouth.

That coffee shop owner… what does she think she is? Sixteen? Hot stuff? Stylish? I think not! All she is is a freak!" Naruto looked back at Itachi, obviously pissed off. "You should THANK me for getting your ass out of there!

"Um, thank you?" Itachi slowly raised an eyebrow.

"So what DID you want to say to Itachi anyway? Why didn't you want revenge anymore?"

Itachi thought for a moment. What should he say to Naruto?

Finally, he decided what to say: "None of your business."

Naruto's eyes widened before they narrowed in annoyance. "Aww, man! C'mon, Sasuke! You can tell me!"

"It's just that it's a… family thing."

"Uh-huh, sure it is…" Naruto said. He was still clutching Itachi's wrist and speedwalking towards Konoha. Itachi thought that maybe Naruto would cut off his circulation. He felt his hand begin tingling.

"Um, Naruto," he said, straining his hand.

But Naruto kept babbling on to himself about the coffee shop owner and how he was annoyed at "Sasuke" for not telling him.

"Hey, Naruto" Itachi said, this time attempting to twist his wrist. He looked down at his hand in the moonlight, and could see that his brother's pale skin was replaced with a light shade of purple.

But Naruto continued rambling on. "Augh, I hate that woman. And what tops this wonderful night off is that my own best friend won't tell me ANYTHING. I mean, I would tell him anything…"

"Naruto…?" Itachi said nervously as the purple shade on his skin got darker and darker purple. Naruto clutched onto his wrist harder, sending tingles throughout his body.

"He didn't deserve to get rescued by me if he's just gonna be all, 'Hey, Naruto, you suck and nothing is ANY of your business! So why don't you just go and die in a hole!'"

"Na…ru…to…" Itachi said weakly. His whole body was numb. His eyes drooped, but before they closed, he could see that he was COMPLETELY purple now.

"But no! He just decides that he can just blow me off! After all I've done for him, after all these years, he STILL thinks he's all that!"

Itachi was doing his best to drag himself along, but Naruto was walking so fast, that he collapsed behind him. Then his vision clouded black.

Omg, is it really possible to cut someone's circulation off that terribly!

It is in Narutoland.

Naruto facepalmed with his free hand as he looked down at his unconscious friend. "Great, now I have to carry him back…"

So, Itachi was confined to his bed. He had gotten better a LONG time ago, but he wanted to do nothing but just lay there.

"Sasuke," he uttered his first words since he fainted that night. "what are you doing right now?"

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"I'M DYING!" Sasuke screeched.

Yup, the genius had stepped RIGHT off a cliff.

Think fast, think fast, think fast! Sasuke thought frantically as he zoomed to the bottom of the cliff. He quickly concentrated his chakra to his right hand and smacked it against the side of the rocky cliff. It sucked to be him at that moment, because his hand slid down the cliff from the momentum at a fast speed until he came to a slow stop. Don't you think that would hurt a little?

Yeah, Sasuke was bleeding like crazy.

"OUCH!" Sasuke yelped. He struggled to attach his feet to the side of the cliff using chakra. When that was accomplished, he let his poor banged up hand free and stood on his feet, as if the cliff were solid ground.

"Next time," said a randomly familiar voice from his left side, "look before you leap…" Aname was sitting down on the side of the cliff as if it were solid ground. She got up, then strolled up Sasuke's stomach until she got to his face. "Idiot," she said, flicking his nose.

Sasuke scowled. "You…" he said bitterly.

"I what?" Aname giggled, showing her usual smug personality. She then straddled his neck (awkward…) and looked closely into his eyes. Sasuke could've sworn that he saw the devil in them, smiling and laughing as he burned in hell.

Sasuke really didn't like Aname.

"Well, we better get back up there to the real world," Aname said mischievously. She grabbed onto his eye sockets for support as she let herself fall to the other side of his body.

"OUCH! WTF!" Sasuke cried. To top off his pain in his hand and eyes, Aname had now released her legs from his neck so that she was just holding onto his shoulders and her feet freely dangled off the cliff.

"Up and at 'em!" she called up to Sasuke. The Uchiha grimaced as he began his exhausting walk up the side of the cliff.

My poor legs! My poor, poor legs! Sasuke thought sorrowfully as he hiked up the perilous cliff. It seemed like he was walking for years until they got to the top. When that moment had finally arrived, Sasuke pulled himself up and collapsed to the ground, huffing and puffing like a dog with rabies.

Aname walked in front of him and lightly kicked him in the aching abs. Sasuke groaned as she informed him: "You're getting out of shape, aren't you? You haven't trained in a long time…"

"No," Sasuke breathed. "I didn't. I couldn't, because YOU switched me into my worst enemy's body!" He was now sounding rather enraged.

Aname's eyelid twitched as she looked down at the pitiful creature called Sasuke. She shook her head, disappointed in the young man.

"Ugh," she said. "You didn't hear what he said the other night, did you?"

"What? I saw him like, five days ago! Are you serious! How could I remember something that happened so long ago!"

At first, Aname thought he was joking. But by the look on his face, she saw that he truly didn't remember.

"Let's give you a little hint," she drawled. Then she leaned down and said into his ear: "Something about a truth, perhaps…?"

Sasuke gasped as the memory flooded back into his brain.

"There really is a truth," he quoted, "I just couldn't tell you…" This left him thoughtful, not knowing what to make of it.

"The answer is in this," Aname said, looking very serious and determined. She held up the suitcase. "In this suitcase, the truth lies."

Sasuke's eyes widened as he gaped at the suitcase (which was rather large compared to the small angel). Could the truth really be in there? Was she lying? Sasuke saw in her rarely serious eyes that she wasn't messing with his head.

Aname extended the suitcase toward him. "Check and see what's inside."

Sasuke's fingers shook as he reached for the latch. He tried to grip onto them, but they were shaking too fiercly. About five minutes went by as he trembled and attempted to open his suitcase.

"Oh, for the love of the heavens!" Aname said, clearly exasperated. She snatched the suitcase out of his hands and undid the latches. Then she handed it back to him. "NOW look! Or else I'll check you into rehab!"

The Uchiha was pale. He forced his shaky fingers through the suitcase, sorting through clothes and toiletries. Suddenly, a light brighter than the sun shone from the suitcase, landing on Sasuke's face. Aname gasped, her eyes widening as she gaped at the light.

"AAAAAUUUUUGGGHHHH!" Sasuke screamed as his own eyes widened at the object he was looking down at. Aname was now pale herself, trembling and shaking all over.

"… wait a second." Sasuke stopped short, the bright light still on his face. He examined the object and then pulled it out. "It was just my mirror." Sasuke held up a small mirror shard. "Dang! It broke! I liked this mirror, I was actually planning to steal it from Itachi when I got my body back…"

Aname ran her fingers through her hair, many curse words sitting in her throat. Instead of swearing, she snatched the mirror shard out of the idiot's hand and glared up at him. "Look deeper," she commanded in a harsh voice.

Sasuke stuck out his bottom lip, pouting like a two year old, but obeyed, still aimlessly fishing through all the crap in the suitcase. Would he ever get to the real object?

Isn't this anticipating! ;D Sorry to torture you, but let's go see what Itachi's doing…

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What a surprise.

Itachi laid in his bed. It was about evening, but he wasn't planning to get up for anything for a loooonngg time. Even though everyone was trying to visit him, he would just lay there and stare at the ceiling.

"Oh my gosh! He has Alzheimer's! SAKURA! SAKURA! GRANNY TSUNADEEEEEEEEEE!" Naruto had said while previously visiting him that day. He had ran out, screaming helplessly for help (screaming helplessly for help… makes sense, doesn't it?). Sakura came in to inspect him, and then banged Naruto on the head, telling him that "Sasuke does NOT have Alzheimer's! He just wants to be left alone! Can't you see he's still upset from seeing Itachi!" She sat on the edge of his bed and smiled sweetly down at him. "There, there, Sasuke. It's okay, you have everyone in Konoha to care for you. We're all your friends, and we'll do anything to make you feel better. Guess what? I have some good news! It's about Sai—"

"SAI! Hehehe, I can't believe it!" Naruto butted in. "So Sai is staying in Emiko's castle with her! Do you see what's going on! They're in looooovvvvee!" Naruto cackled madly.

"NARUTO! Sai is being rewarded for fighting off all the ninja that were supposed to escort her back to her kingdom!" She turned back to her beloved. "You see Sasuke," she said, changing her voice from harsh to sugary sweet. "Sai escorted Emiko all that way until he came upon the other guards. But he was still worried about her, so he followed them and discovered that they were actually wanting to hold her hostage. So he fought them ALL off by himself! He then took her back to the castle and now Emiko's parents, the king and queen, want to give him a big reward. They might make him royalty!" She said happily. "I'm so proud of him! I wonder if he'll end up marrying Emiko! He seemed to really like her…"

"Ew, yuck! What if they get married at THIS AGE!" Naruto stuck his tongue out, disgusted by the idea.

"I think it's cute," Sakura argued.

"It's gross, that's what it is!" Naruto said.

"No!" Sakura was obviously starting to get frustrated. "No! Naruto, it's NOT gross! You should at least be glad that Sai is finally starting to understand emotion!"

"Well, I liked him better WITHOUT emotion…" Naruto said stubbornly.

Sakura slammed her hands down on the dresser. Naruto made some weird sound in his throat and ran out the door, quickly as possible.

"NARUTO, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Sakura ran after him, waving her fist in the air. She stopped at the doorway, put on her sweet face, and said overly nice, "see you later, Sasuke." Complete with her blowing a kiss in his direction. Then she continued running and screaming.

Itachi sighed. When would this torture end!

"Holy cow, are they always like that?"

Itachi looked over to see a familiar young girl, sitting on the windowsill, staring after the two that had just run out.

"Why are you here?" Itachi asked, slightly cross.

"Look, I know that you're unhappy with me, but I didn't plan for you guys to see each other at the coffee shop," Aname said honestly. "So now that that's happened, I guess it's time you take a look at this.

She hopped off her place on the windowsill and crawled beneath the bed. Itachi sat up, his back aching from not moving for so long. I mean, it'd been five days since he'd actually sat up, you know…

"Ah, here it is." Aname stood up, looking at Itachi like a little girl on Christmas that didn't get any gifts, and holding her hands behind her back. "Okay, I want you too see something. It's about Sasuke."

Itachi perked up a little.

"You didn't know this about him, but let him explain."

"What? Is Sasuke here?" Itachi looked frantically around the room, but saw no sign of his little brother.

"Not the present one, but the past one is," Aname said. Then, she carefully held up the object behind her back…

Am I driving you crazy, or WHAT! Don't worry, I don't like cliffhangers either (cliffhangers like Sasuke in this chapter ^.^) so I'll update as soon as possible :D

Sasuke: Are you teasing me!

Me: It's a sign of love, Sasuke!

Sasuke: No! It's not! Look what you just put me through!

Me: Listen, if I hated you, would I be writing a book about you?

Sasuke: Well, judging by this story... yes.

Me: No! You're wrong!

Sasuke: Admit it, you hate me!

Me: Sasuke, if you're a good little boy, something good just MIGHT come out of this...

Sasuke: PLEASE! I DON'T WANT TO SUFFER ANY MORE!

Me: *Slaps forehead* Just be patient, buddy! Hang in there! Because next chapter, you'll get to see something everyone reading this is just DYING to see ;D

Sasuke: *Groans* ...

Me: Hehehe... ;) See you soon!